Story+2009-10-02+East+Rutherford,+NJ

“Good evening, New Jersey (crowd cheers) alright, you come in to help us tear this old girl down (crowd cheers) this is something I wrote for tonight…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Wrecking Ball”**

“(Crowd chants) I can’t hear you! (crowd chants) let ‘em hear you in New York City (crowd chants) I can’t hear you (crowd chants) bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up (crowd chants)…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”**

“Good evening, New Jersey (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here at Giants Stadium tonight (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be back home (crowd cheers) now the E Street Band has been touring and touring and touring and practising and practising and practising just for tonight (crowd cheers) and we are here tonight to uphold our solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here tonight just to rock the house, we’re here tonight to build a house…out of love and out of faith and out of joy and out of Jersey soul and out of spirit and out of noise…now the mighty E Street Band is gonna bring down the power of the music on you…but, New Jersey, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“Thank you and good evening (crowd cheers) alright…when we knew we were coming to, uh, close…Giants Stadium, we tried to think of something special we could do (crowd cheers) so, uh…last night we played “Born to Run” start to finish (crowd cheers) tomorrow night “Born in the U.S.A” start to finish but tonight this is, uh…this was a big, big, important record for us (crowd cheers) it was a record we made, we’d kind of had one, one hit and then we got three years off for a lot of trouble and hard times and this was a record we made when we, when we came back, it was a really important record, it’s probably made up the body of our set for most of the past thirty years (crowd cheers) this is “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (crowd cheers)…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Badlands”**

“These are the guys that made the record (crowd cheers) and Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers) thank you!...now get your asses back on those instruments and get back to work (chuckles) give me a guitar…come on, kid… (…) Let me hear you now…I’m waitin’ (crowd sings the chorus) that’s terrible…once more (crowd sings the chorus)…one more (a kid sings the chorus) once more (the kid sings the chorus a second time)(crowd cheers)… (…) That’s good singing…get your guitar, Steve…Stevie…Stevie!... play it, Steve (the intro to “Raise Your Hand” starts)…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Waitin' on a Sunny Day” (following “Darkness on the Edge of Town”)**

“Warden threw a party in the county jail…we do try to play one thing we’ve never played before, alright, somebody…threw this up on this lovely egg carton…let’s see how it’s gonna go…can it be done?...(sings)…give me some slap…alright, you ready, band?...”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Jailhouse Rock”**

“Did I see a sign?...no…no…you the man right there…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Cadillac Ranch”**

“We wanna thank everybody for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers) thank you, Jersey (crowd cheers)… (…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Curt!…Larry! (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Eddie Manion (crowd cheers) Garry Tallent (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Art Baron (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) poet, saxophonist, sexophonist…Autor!…the biggest man on the New Jersey Turnpike: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers)…Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) Jersey! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band” and fireworks go off)(crowd cheers)...”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “American Land”**

“We got one more for you (crowd cheers)…gonna send this one out to Patti!...Stevie, help me out…”
 * 02.10.09 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Rosalita”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//